Air Force, to get enough money and used the real military astronauts to be the crew of Apollo 18. So the plot is he went to the Air Force, the U.S. And there were supposed to be Apollo 18 and Apollo 19, but Nixon canceled them for financial reasons. But the Apollo missions, of course, went to the Moon. HADFIELD: Oh, yeah, there are a lot of things going on. So talk me through the plot a little bit - about what the ostensible mission of the space flight is but what the secret mission is because there's two things going on here. His new novel is called "The Apollo Murders." It follows a fictional Apollo Mission 18 during the space race and the Cold War in the early 1970s. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Unlike Major Tom, he made it back to Earth and began writing bestselling books about the final frontier. HADFIELD: (Singing) This is ground control to Major Tom. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield was orbiting the Earth at thousands of miles an hour as he sang David Bowie's "Space Oddity" in 2015. CHRIS HADFIELD: (Singing) Ground control to Major Tom.
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